This issue of Perspectives focused on the International Cluttering Association (ICA) represented by twelve different countries, fluency courses at the ELTE University in Budapest, Hungary, a variety of treatment approaches for cluttering therapy, cluttering treatment and assessment in Poland, international volunteerism and sustainability, and the collaboration between ASHA and PAHO/WHO.

This issue of Perspectives focuses on a study of adults with aphasia in South Africa, Communication Cottages for individuals with aphasia in Finland, speech and language services for individuals with a neurogenic communication disorder in South Korea, and clinical and research issues for professionals working with individuals diagnosed with aphasia in India.

This issue focuses on best practice during an assessment of internationally adopted children, the implementation of new born hearing screenings in developing countries, collaboration with Nicaraguan preschools, and the need for educational guidelines for the prevention of noise induced hearing loss in young adults worldwide.

The authors in this SIG 17 Perspectives focus on: the International Cluttering Association (ICA) and the history, research, assessment and treatment of cluttering from multiple authors around the globe; the service delivery and practices of foreign-educated speech-language pathologists in Trinidad and Tobago; the request for updated research of accent modification and its policy; and volunteerism in an English immersion program for Spanish speakers.

This issue of Perspectives begins with a welcome message and an invitation from our SIG 17 Coordinator. The authors go on to concentrate on ethical considerations in volunteer tourism in a global context; connections across professions linking West Africa and the United States; Multicultural Intensive Speech-Language Therapy Intervention Clinic (MISTIC) as a program with an international collaboration involving Mexico and the United States; the ethnic characteristics of participants involved in international research; and increasing family literacy activities in a school in Mexico.

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